

News:
20.01.2023
Lab outing to the 3 wise monkeys in Colchester
08.12.22
A review paper was published in Viruses; Giotis, E.S.; Cil, E.; Brooke, G.N. Use of Antiandrogens as Therapeutic Agents in COVID-19 Patients. Viruses2022, 14, 2728. https://doi.org/10.3390/v14122728
02.12.22
Great meeting on pseudotyping by VPU at NIBSC
01.12.22
Stathis Giotis is accepted as a member of the UKRI/BBSRC panel of experts
04.11.22
A preprint review on anti androgens as COVID-19 was released in collaboration with Greg Brooke's group at Essex
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202211.0075/v1
15.09.22
Celebrating the retirement of Professor Mike Skinner at Imperial College. Happy retirement Mike!
19.07.22
Celebrating our last lab meeting for the Summer and the heatwave in Essex
25.05.2022
Stathis Giotis contributed to an article by Helen Collis at politico.eu about monkeypox and vaccines
02.05.2022
Riaz Somji and Tiffany Teoh joined our lab to do a PhD (3-years) and Masters by Dissertation (MSD; 1 year) respectively.
Wellcome!
04-07.04.2022
Ogunjinmi (Dami) Oluwadamilola and Stathis Giotis presented (poster and oral presentations) at the annual conference of the UK Microbiology Society, which was held in Belfast (4-7 April 2022).
15.03.2022
Tukur Abdullahi from Nigeria is the newest member of our lab. His PhD will be focused on the comparative host innate responses to seasonal coronaviruses.
21.02.2022
Our paper 'Naïve Human Macrophages Are Refractory to SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Exhibit a Modest Inflammatory Response Early in Infection' is now published in Viruses
https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/14/2/441
05.02.2022
A new preprint was released on bioRxiv: Primary human macrophages exhibit a modest inflammatory response early in SARS-CoV-2 infection
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.02.478897v1
21.01.2022
Stathis Giotis, David Matthews and Jacqueline Smith are editors of the research topic 'Host innate immune responses to infections by avian- and bat-borne viruses volume II' in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
09.12.2021
Stathis Giotis spoke on BBC London about the Omicron variant and the recently introduced measures to slow its spread in the UK
24.11.2021
Stathis Giotis was interviewed by East Anglian daily times on COVID-19 and his opinion was hosted in the main article of 24.11.2021
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/health/suffolk-enhanced-response-area-exit-likely-8511602
20.10.2021
Stathis Giotis was interviewed by the BBC Essex radio morning show about COVID-19 vaccines and the need to reintroduce some restriction measures in light of the rising cases of COVID-19
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09x4zlr
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